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Daily Digest Archive for December 3, 2003

Q: (Initially posted December 1, 2003) FROM MEMBER CRYSTAL D. IN TX
Why does our planet have water and other planets don't (well in liquid state)?

December 3, 2003
A: FROM MENTOR DIANA DIONISIO IN CA
Planets moved around the sun in orbits. In our solar system, the earth is the 3rd planet from the sun and this distance and conditions is perfect to house liquid water. Anything too close is too hot to have water. The earth is made of rock while some planets are made of gas that can't even hold water. Other really far planets have frozen water only because it's so far from the sun that the water freezes.

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